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There's been a lot of retail development in the Upper Macungie Township area in recent years. But Michael Gottwald felt the area was missing one type of business: barbershops. That spurred the Bethlehem native to open The Barber Shop at 1044 Trexlertown Road, Breinigsville. This is his third Valley barbershop. The new four-chair shop occupies a piece of a recently completed shopping center that includes other merchants like Lehigh Valley Vacuum . The Barber Shop does all textures of hair.

A state trooper's check of the license plate on a car on the Route 222 Bypass at the Upper Macungie-Lower Macungie line Monday afternoon led to a six-mile slow-speed chase and the driver's arrest. Jonathan J. Rojas, 19, of 1419 Windmill Lane, Breinigsville was northbound on the Route 222 bypass at 3:22 p.m. when a trooper requested the license plate check, which found the plate had expired and belonged to another car, state police at Fogelsville said. The trooper activated his lights and siren to stop Rojas, but he did not pull over, according to the police arrest affidavit.

By Frank Warner and Tracy Jordan, OF THE MORNING CALL | November 16, 2010

A 49-year-old Upper Macungie Township man run over by an SUV he was pushing in his driveway Monday night died within an hour after the accident, according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office. Richard Hrycko of 924 Mosser Road, which is in the Breinigsville section of the township, was pronounced dead at 7:20 p.m. in the emergency room of Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, the coroner's office said Tuesday. The cause and manner of his death are pending the results of an autopsy scheduled for Wednesday.

BREINIGSVILLE Trio attacks man over Facebook comment, police charge Upset at a comment posted on a Facebook page online, a former Salisbury Township man and two Allentown boys kicked a Breinigsville man until he was unconscious, state police said. Damien A. Rishel, 20, currently of Horsham, Montgomery County, and the two unidentified Allentown boys, 16 and 17 years old, were charged Tuesday with simple assault and harassment. Rishel and the boys went to the home of Daniel Bernard, 20, in the Breinigsville section of Upper Macungie Township and attacked him at 8:20 p.m. Sept.

After more than a year of living in an unfinished development where some streets aren't paved, some driveways still crunch with gravel and some backyards turn into swamps in the rain, you'd think residents of Whitfield Estates would welcome a new developer with fireworks, a block party or, at least, open arms. Instead, they have a list — a stack of papers a quarter-inch thick — of items to finish or repair after the 2009 bankruptcy by TH Properties abruptly halted construction in the Breinigsville neighborhood.

When you purchase a book or DVD from Amazon.com, there's a good chance it soon will be selected, packed and shipped by one of your Lehigh Valley neighbors. The country's largest Internet retailer announced Thursday it plans to open a 600,000-square-foot Northeast fulfillment center in Breinigsville at the former home of shipping company DHL this summer, pumping "several hundred" new full-time jobs into a distribution sector that has been battered by the sluggish retail economy. DHL laid off 375 in Upper Macungie Township in November 2008, shuttering its Nestle Way distribution center along the Interstate 78 corridor after its parent company abandoned the U.S. market.

The nation's leading Internet retailer plans to open a new 600,000 square-foot distribution center in Breinigsville this summer, creating hundreds of local warehousing and distribution jobs. Amazon.com announced the opening today, saying the new distribution center would help it better serve customers in the northeastern U.S. The company has scheduled employment open houses at The Palace Center, 623 Hanover Ave., Allentown for May 16 and 18. The company is hiring full-time workers in picking, packing and shipping and receiving.